A former Lowe’s Home Centers LLC worker may resume her wage-and-hour suit after a California state appellate court ruled the dispute was improperly paused while the company arbitrated other workers’ cases.

The home improvement chain secured a stay of ex-worker Ann Leenay’s Private Attorneys General Act suit against it as Lowe’s arbitrated cases in which other workers made similar claims. But California’s civil procedure rules don’t authorize judges to stay a plaintiff’s case on the basis of pending arbitrations to which they aren’t a party, the California Court of Appeal, Fourth Appellate District, said.

Leenay filed a PAGA complaint ...

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